Through interviews, newspaper accounts, and other original sources, Bartoletti pieced together a picture of life in the Pennsylvania coal mi...

This is an important look at coal exploration and mining worldwide, with discussions on the parameters and decision-making factors in drilli...

Coal Towns of West Virginia, Volume 2, Mary Legg Stevenson's most recent work, chronicles--through photographs-the history of many of West...

In order to reduce the cost of running blast furnaces (BFs), injected pulverized coal is used rather than coke to fire BFs. As a result of ...

It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward agricult...

Given the recent assertions made by the Bush administration, itwould seem that coal is a glistening new energy alternative, theanswer to the...

One of America's most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, deca...